The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada

by: University of Nevada Oral History Program

Publication date: 2013

Usage: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

Topics: Great Depression, George Wingfield, Grazing Service, CCC Program, Taylor Grazing Act, U.S. Forest Service, Parks Service and Soil Conservation Service, Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Navy Ammunition Depot, Civilian Conservation Corms

Publisher: University of Nevada Oral History Program

Collection: unroralhistory; additional_collections

Language: English

The 1930’s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) program, formed in response to the Great Depression, brought 30,000 young, unemployed men from eastern cities and Midwest farms to work solving ecological problems in Nevada. Ecological blows added to economic problems when severe winters were followed by droughts, Mormon cricket infestations, and rampant range fires. The Grazing Service’s CCC program in the West was critical to implementing the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934. CCC camps were also created in the U. S. Forest Service, the Parks Service and Soil Conservation Service, the Bureau of Reclamation, Biological Survey, and the Navy Ammunition Depot in Hawthorne. These 15 oral histories with CCC camp alumni were one component of a larger study of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Nevada.

Notes

Oral history transcripts from the University of Nevada Oral History Program are derived from interviews recorded between 1964 and 2014. The archive is housed and managed in Special Collections in the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries. Original audio recordings of most interviews are available for research purposes upon request. High-resolution copies of photographs from transcripts can also be requested from Special Collections.Inquiries about the University of Nevada Oral History Archive may be addressed to UNR Special Collections (specoll@unr.edu, 775-682-5665).

Addeddate: 2018-07-02 21:45:47

Date-digital: 2013

Identifier: CivilianConservationCorps

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t6840sf2m

Interview-date: 2000

Interviewee: Chadwell, C.A. "Chad", 1917-2010; Crawford, Marshall Andrew, 1915-2009; Cushing, Calvin C., 1916-2009; DeCarlo, Michael P., 1920-2011; Ferguson, William D. “W.D.”, 1921-2002; Fry, Raymond Hart, 1913-2002; Hash, Ralph N., 1917-2011; Haynes, Herman Jr., 1922-; Hines, Rex J., 1919-2001; Norman, Harry, 1920-2006; Randall, Elmer R., 1908-2004; Rosowski, Edmund E., 1916-2005; Ruchty, Joseph, 1921-2010; Wilbur, Vernard Henry "Bud", 1919-2003

Interviewer: Bennett, Dan; Ford, Victoria, 1946-; Kolvet, Renée Corona

Ocr: ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR)

Ppi: 300

Rights: Transcripts of interviews in the University of Nevada Oral History Archive are copyrighted materials. They may be downloaded and/or printed for personal reference and educational use, but not sold or used in commercial products without permission.